Rupert Hughes
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican writer (1872-1956)
Rupert Raleigh Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr.
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Still from the American film Remembrance with Patsy Ruth Miller, Claude Gillingwater, and Cullen Landis
Rupert Hughes (far right) directing one of his stories, Goldwyn Studios, Culver City, circa 1920s
Rupert Hughes (left) with Director Herbert Brenon in 1917
Rupert Hughes (top center) as he appeared with other Hollywood notables in a 1921 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph BartonConnected to Rupert 6
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Rupert Raleigh Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr. His three-volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing Washington and was well received by historians. A staunch anti-Communist, in the 1940s he served as president of the American Writers Association, a group of anti-Communist writers.
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